The ancient Silk Road began in the Chinese city of Changan (present-day Xi'an) and ran westward across deserts to oases and over mountain passes, through the great Central Asian trading cities of Samarqand and Bukhara in modern Uzbekistan and...

The opening of the Silk Road, which ultimately linked China with Europe, was one of the most important undertakings in the history of exploration prior to the period from A.D. 1400 to 1600. Indeed, the creation of the Silk Road was a phenomenon in...

The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting East and West by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers,...

The Silk Road: The name itself calls to mind images of endless camel caravans-heavy with spices, incense, ivory, jade and silk as valuable as gold-plodding past the vast and deadly expanses of the most forbidding deserts known to man. A windswept path that stretches...

When Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the oil giant Saudi Aramco last year, he didn't need a translator. Plenty of Chinese- speaking Saudis were on hand. A few years earlier, Saudi Aramco had sent dozens of employees to study in Beijing. After all, China,...

From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns. Along the way, we followed the footsteps made...

For decades, officials have dreamed of a railway network spanning Asia, linking cities as diverse as Kuala Lumpur and Kabul, Yangon and Yerevan. Greater connections among existing rail networks would bring remote inland regions and landlocked countries closer to vibrant...

Trade in the classical civilizations was an important aspect of their society. Trade not only allowed for goods and services to be exchanged but culture, religion, and diseases. Eventually over time trade become organized and structured into what we call today, the Silk Roads.